Civl Nfp Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832638730
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8479038765
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,410
- Expenses
- $5,765
- Assets
- $1,828
- Liabilities
- $2,714
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William Helmkamp (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Jimalita tillman (CO-CHAIR)
- CHRIS BAUMAN (Co-Chair)
- Cassie Dickson (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Civl serves the purpose of bringing together the collective resources of the independent private performance venues across the city of chicago to ensure the stability and sustainability of such independent venus in the face of larger, well-resourced organizations who have made it increasingly difficult for independent venues to exist to serve the performers and audiences who are unlikely to be served otherwise. Our activities and expenditures will include the collective use of resource to secure performers, market events, and share the risks associated with the realities of operating independent, small venues in today's market, so that we may better serve the communities of artists and those they inspire. All activities and expenditures are to advance the independent private performance industry as a whole and not to benefit any sole member.
What it reported doing in 2025
CIVL supported Chicago's network of independent venues through new professional development, advocacy, and community initiatives. CIVL launched job board access to connect venues with qualified local talent. The organization completed and published an economic impact study quantifying the contributions of independent venues to the Chicagoland economy and workforce. CIVL began pre-production on a community-wide festival celebrating independent stages and local artists. A vendor guide was developed for members to streamline venue operations and expand access to trusted industry partners. CIVL also maintained and deepened collaborations with partner organizations including the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), Arts Alliance Illinois, and Lawyers for the Creative Arts, among others, to advance shared goals in support of Chicago's arts ecosystem.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.48; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -57% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.